Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian
counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a
summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal
on ending the war in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump, who hosted President Vladimir Putin in
Alaska on Friday for bilateral talks aimed at ending the war
that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in
early 2022, said that Kyiv should make a deal with Moscow
because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not.”
The phone call between Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister
Hakan Fidan took place at Turkey’s initiative, the Russian
foreign ministry said in a statement on its website.
“The foreign ministers exchanged views on the outcomes of
the high-level Russia\u2013U.S. meeting held in Alaska on August 15,”
the ministry said in its short statement.
Turkey has tried to keep diplomatic channels open to both
sides during the war, acting as a NATO member, a partner for
both Russia and Ukraine, and a potential mediator.
Lavrov also held a call with Hungarian Foreign Minister
Peter Szijjarto, the Russian foreign ministry said, in which
“the parties discussed issues related to the Ukrainian crisis in
the context of the outcomes of the Russia\u2013U.S. summit.”
Hungary has maintained close ties with Russia throughout the
war, often opposing EU sanctions and continuing energy
cooperation with Moscow, and drawing criticism from Western
allies of Kyiv.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday after the
Putin-Trump meeting that “the world is a safer place than it was
yesterday,” while other European leaders reiterated in their
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